About the position
Develop and maintain Ansible playbooks and roles in a highly secure and regulated environment
Create, manage and operate Ansible Automation Platform objects such as templates, credentials, workflows etc
Consult users to assist with migrating automation workloads to Ansible Automation Platform
Deploy, manage, and operate workloads on AWS and Azure, as well as implement security controls and compliance requirements
Create, manage and operate IaC withTerraform
Perform operating system and Ansible Automation Platform lifecycle management
Interact with Enterprise GitHub for version control and Git branching strategy
Track and update Jira user stories to ensure due dates are met
Forecast and plan for resources, infrastructure, and licenses for the team in coordination with the Product
Owner and Line manager in charge.
Assist to ensure stability of systems and adherence of the team to one of our clients Group’s Operations standards.
Ensure quality and up to date content of the knowledge base for the sub-product
Ensure quality and up to date content of the Sub-Product and compliancy required documentation
Able to understand complex application architecture/dependencies (CA related)
Perform housekeeping/monitoring/managing of the Ansible Automation Platform focusing on stability/ performance as well as cost optimization.
Manage Problem, Incident and Change process for dedicated ITSM service
Willing to do standby and work on weekends if needed
Keep documentation up to date in all relevant systems (e. g. as is configuration CMDB/Application Instance Wizard, to be configuration Connect IT, knowledge database resolveIT)
Attend and moderate operation meetings
Coordinate external contractors
Manage security vulnerabilities
Minimum Requirements:
SKILLS REQUIREMENTS:
Qualifications/Experience:
Degree in Information Systems or equivalent experience
Strong Experience with Ansible Core and Ansible Automation Platform (or Ansible Tower/AWX)
Strong experience with coding and scripting (Bash, PowerShell etc)
Strong experience with Linux (RHEL, Ubuntu, SLES)
Strong experience with Cloud Technologies (AWS, Azure)
Strong knowledge with version control systems (GitHub)
Strong experience with IaC technologies (Terraform)
Experience with GitOps
Experience with ServiceNow (Advantageous)
Experience with Dynatrace (Advantageous)
Experience with SIEM technologies such as Splunk (Advantageous)
Experience with Red Hat Satellite (Advantageous)
Any Linux certification such as RHCSA
Ansible certification - RHCE (ex294/ex407) (advantageous
Essential Skills Requirements:
Deep knowledge of Confluence, Jira and Bitbucket/GitHub
Deep knowledge of Ansible Core and Ansible Automation Platform/Ansible Tower
Deep knowledge of cloud technologies such as AWS and Azure
Deep knowledge of Unix, Linux (RHEL, Ubuntu, SLES)
Deep knowledge of IaC and related tools such as Terraform
Deep knowledge of mounting technologies Autofs and DFS
Deep knowledge of storage technologies as well as state of the art solutions
Deep knowledge of networks technologies and protocols NFS, CIFS, SSH, DNS, and NTP
Deep knowledge of scripting / programming such as Bash, Python and Perl
Professional communication and documentation skills
Advantageous Skills Requirements:
Knowledge of framework Agile Working Model
Knowledge of Virtualisation technologies such as VMWare
Knowledge of Private Cloud solutions
Knowledge of Windows Server
Knowledge of Dynatrace or Grafana
Knowledge of Splunk
Knowledge of containerization technologies such as podman, Docker, Kubernetes and OpenShift
Knowledge of Directory Access Manager (DIVA)
Knowledge of Intelligent Storage Orchestration Environment (iStore) and Active Directory Gruppentool (ADGR)
Basic knowledge of ITIL and ITSM such as Problem-Incident-Change processes
Basic knowledge of ITSM Suite
Basic knowledge of Scrum
Basic knowledge of Active Directory/LDAP and OIDC
Basic knowledge of ServiceNow Tool and Processes
Desired Skills:
- Confluence
- Jira and Bitbucket/GitHub
- Ansible Core and Ansible Automation
- AWS and Azure
